Summer 2025, In Books

Book reviews coming sometime maybe never.

Books I want to read this summer:

• The World Beyond Your Head: How To Flourish In An Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford ✅ (5/5)

• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid ✅ (3/5)

• Yoko by David Sheff ✅ (4/5)

• Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott ✅ (2/5)

• All The Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin ✅ (4.5/5)

• Lectures On The Philosophy of Mathematics by Joel David Hamkins

• Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson

• Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems by Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel, and Peter Klimek

• Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms by John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke Hubbard

• The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

• Causality by Judea Pearl

• Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David J. C. Mackay

• The Nature of Computation by Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens

• The Theoretical Minimum Series by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky

  • Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

  • Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum

  • General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum

  • Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

• Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit

• Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

• Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott

• I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

• The Game by Neil Strauss ✅ (3.5/5)

• Proofs & Theories: Essays On Poetry by Louise Glück

• The Seven Ages by Louise Glück

• The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

• Crush by Richard Siken ✅ (4.8/5)

• Men In The Off Hours by Anne Carson

• The Beauty of The Husband by Anne Carson

• Float by Anne Carson

• Ice by Anna Kavan

• The Oresteia by Aeschylus

• London by Edward Rutherfurd

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi ✅ (4/5)

• The Republic by Plato

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

• Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek

• Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

• Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame by T. M. Scanlon

• Permutation City by Greg Egan

• Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

I will keep updating this list as I finish more books and link to book reviews if I write them. ✅ means I am done reading the parts of the book I want to read and 🛑 means I have abandoned the book.

Comment any recommendations you have because obviously this list needs to be longer.

And finally, I solemnly swear:

I will only add one book to the list per five books I finish. I will only add one book to the list per five books I finish. I will only add one book to the list per five books I finish.